March 21, 1914

STATE OF ILLINOIS

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

HARRY WOODS – SECRETARY OF STATE

BEECHER CEMETERY AND MAUSOLEUM ASSOCIATION

ARTHUR STRUVE, HENRY B RUGE, LOUIS FICK, GEORGE BESEKE, HENRY F. THIELMAN AND FRANK HUNTE

hereby present this our petition setting forth our desire to organize a Cemetery Association under an act of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, entitled “An Act to Provide for the organization, ownership, management and control of Cemetery Associations, “Approved May 14, 1903, said Cemetery to be located in WILL County, and to be known by name and style of BEECHER CEMETERY AND MAUSOLEUM ASSOCIATION.